Primer For Blacks

Blacknessis a title,is a preoccupation,is a commitment Blacksare to comprehend—and in which you areto perceive your Glory.

The conscious shoutof all that is white is“It’s Great to be white.”The conscious shoutof the slack in Black is'It's Great to be white.'Thus all that is whitehas white strength and yours.

The word Blackhas geographic power,pulls everybody in:Blacks here—Blacks there—Blacks wherever they may be.And remember, you Blacks, what they told you—remember your Education:“one Drop—one Dropmaketh a brand new Black.” Oh mighty Drop.______And because they have given us kindlyso many more of our people

Blacknessstretches over the land.Blackness—the Black of it,the rust-red of it,the milk and cream of it,the tan and yellow-tan of it,the deep-brown middle-brown high-brown of it,the “olive” and ochre of it—Blacknessmarches on.

The huge, the pungent object of our prime out-rideis to Comprehend,to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black,which is our “ultimate Reality,”which is the lone groundfrom which our meaningful metamorphosis,from which our prosperous staccato,group or individual, can rise.

All of you— you COLORED ones, you NEGRO ones,those of you who proudly cry “I’m half INDian”— those of you who proudly screech “I’VE got the blood of George WASHington in MY veins” ALL of you— you proper Blacks, you half-Blacks, you wish-I-weren’t Blacks, Niggeroes and Niggerenes.